Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print useful martyrdoms by which Manifest

useful martyrdoms by which Manifest Destiny bought its own mythology

Born February 12

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a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

where the founder's likeness has already passed from man into civic icon

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print useful martyrdoms by which ManifestDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,